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Lee Deforest

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Profession
Inventor
Died
Jun 30, 1961
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Council Bluffs IA
About
Scientist and engineer who earned 180 patents over his lifetime, including the Audion and the triode vacuum tube, which made radio broadcasting possible. In his long career he founded over twenty companies and directed short films.
Family
Seeing his young son's talent, his father enrolled him in Mt. Hermon School for Boys, in Massachusetts.

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